Restaurants being built, opening at $100M Trailhead in metro Phoenix Article originally posted on AZ Central on June 1, 2026 The final buildings at the Trailhead mixed-use development in Peoria will break ground in the next few months, as the retail portion of the development nears full occupancy. Flower Child, a Fox Restaurant Concepts restaurant, is under construction and plans to open later this year at the $100 million development located at Happy Valley Road and 83rd Avenue. HonorHealth is also under construction on a medical office facility next to the restaurant site. The development, led by Phoenix-based Pederson Group, includes 140,000 square feet of retail space, anchored by a Safeway store. The development has plans for two more buildings near the corner of Westwing Parkway and Happy Valley Road. One is planned for a stand-alone restaurant that is available for lease, and the other will be leased to two different tenants. The company is in lease negotiations for part of that building with a veterinary office, Jeff Manelis, president of Pederson Group, said. Manelis said there are some restaurant types that would still fit well into the center, including a Mexican restaurant or barbecue. Three restaurants have recently opened in the development: Crust Simply Italian, a pizza and pasta restaurant that opened in March, and Jinya Ramen and Sparrow, which opened last fall. Those full-service restaurants, all of which were the first locations for those brands in the West Valley, have been “welcomed with open arms” by the community, which said it wanted higher-end restaurants to come to the West Valley, Manelis said. Crust also has a high-end speakeasy-style bar attached to the restaurant called the Raven. “We promised an elevated shopping center,” he said. “We brought originals in; we wanted local merchants.” The three restaurants were built around a public open space, which has covered picnic seating, a lawn and a children’s play area. Manelis said the company invested $1.5 million into creating a public open space where people could stop and enjoy the outdoors. The space is open to anyone, including people using the space to access the public hiking trails near the center. It includes a water fountain with a fountain for dogs, too. Other restaurants and shops open at the Trailhead include Peterson’s Ice Cream, Einstein Bros. Bagels, McDonald’s, Chick-fil-a, Robeks Fresh Juices and Smoothies, V’s Barber Shop, a dentist office, AZ Vitality and Wellness and Starbucks. Manelis said the group recently finalized a lease with Bamboo Sushi to take the last of the in-line shop spaces. Life Path Church, which was one of the former landowners of the site that was purchased by Pederson Group, opened its new facility at the Trailhead before the Christmas holiday. Hines, a Houston-based developer, is building a 336-unit apartment complex at the Trailhead, behind the retail portion of the center. The project began construction in 2025, and the first units are expected to be delivered in summer of 2027. The apartment building will include units ranging from one to three bedrooms, and will have a resort-style outdoor pool. The Trailhead development includes a 4-mile walking trail that connects to the Sunrise Mountain Preserve trailhead.